Richard Michael Borins

Richard is Chair of Osler’s Financial Services Practice group. He has over 30 years of experience advising lenders, issuers and borrowers in numerous areas of banking and financing law including structured finance, asset based lending, private credit, direct lending, complex domestic and cross border financings and securitization.

Richard is an expert in cross-border financing transactions. He represents both borrowers and lenders in a variety of secured transactions and his range of experience includes numerous domestic commercial lending transactions, domestic and cross-border syndicated loan transactions, domestic and cross-border private lending transactions and domestic and cross-border public and private asset securitizations. Richard also assists a number of the firm’s retail clients and emerging company clients with their ongoing financing related matters. Richard has spoken extensively in the areas of corporate lending and personal property security law.

Scotiabank in its agreement to transfer banking operations in Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama

NOVA Chemicals Corporation in its pricing of a private offering of US$400 million of senior unsecured notes

NOVA Chemicals Corporation in its Offering of US$400 million Senior Secured Notes and its Offering of US$650 million of Senior Unsecured Notes

Canada’s Big 6 “D-SIB Banks” in connection with the Canadian Emergency Business Account program initiated by Export Development Canada on behalf of Canada